RE: Guile Impressions

From:

John Fitzgerald

Subject:

RE: Guile Impressions

Date:

Fri, 11 May 2001 16:30:34 +1200

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Browning [SMTP:address@hidden
> Sent: May 11, 2001 08:57
> To: John Fitzgerald
> Cc: 'Martin Grabmueller'; 'address@hidden'
> Subject: Re: Guile Impressions
>
> OK. I'm just writing this off the top of my head, but I figured
it
> might be useful. Here are some not-so-polished attempts to
describe
> closures and continuations practically to a C-esque audience.
>
Thanks. Where will these eventually sit in the Guile documentation?
>
> Closure for C programmers:
>
> If C had closures, ...
>
So what do I make of a C function which is supposed to take a
closure as an argument (e.g., scm_boot_guile())?
>
> Continuations (continued from above example):
>
Have you ever had reason to use continuations in production code?
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